THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED Hannah Bistro Cafe

THIS RESTAURANT IS CLOSED Hannah Bistro Cafe Restaurant Review:

A child’s soccer match brought French-born Executive chef Patrick Quillec and native son Brian Whittaker together. The result is a bustling, popular French/American bistro. The best things on the menu are Quillec’s traditional French dishes. You will like the Brittany-style mussels, big, fat ones in a savor every drop white wine/garlic/cream sauce. For sharing amongst two or three, go for the trio of tapenades: black olive, roasted eggplant with tahini and hummus with a smidge of truffle oil. For pure decadence, order Hannah’s home fries: long, skinny, golden brown and dusted with homemade curry powder served with a vibrant pesto aioli for dunking. All come with crusty housemade French bread. For entrées, try the lamb shank, roasted in its own juices and served with a memorable white bean cassoulet. The shrimp Phillippe, 6 jumbo shrimp sautéed in a whole grain mustard/white wine sauce then fanned over a bed of tagliatelle pasta, is typical of the Bistro’s seafood entrées. For dessert, try the Pernod cheesecake, a fat slice bearing a light licorice flavor and speared with a piece of honey-fennel brittle. Diners can order soufflés here, off the menu. You’ll fall for the Grand Marnier one, served in a candelabra-looking affair with fresh berries in one small bowl and crème Anglaise in the other. Quillec and Whittaker have found such success here that in the year 2000 they’re opening a Brittany coast seafood restaurant next door to Lidia’s. Bon Appétit, Kansas City!